Thanks buddy, will keep that in mind. BTW, i will be going for Cooler Master Thunder 600 Watts PSU for the GTX 970 after your guidance, hope it will be good enough. :)

Jan F.

October 9, 2014 at 10:36 am

As ha14 said, the card will work with that motherboard.

As for the power supply your 450W should do just fine. Single GPU high-end systems usually max out between 300-350W at full load.

If you are looking into buying a new one: 500W or above, Seasonic, Corsair, Cooler Master, be quiet!, Enermax, just to name a few brands. If you do play with the idea of an SLI system at some point I would go 650W or above.

Shashu13

October 9, 2014 at 11:31 am

Thanks a lot, and could you also if of the PSUs you mentioned comes with power supply cable for the GPU as well?

Jan F.

October 10, 2014 at 12:42 am

The GTX970 series should require 2x 6pin PCIe connectors or 1x 6pin PCIe + 1x 8pin PCIe.
Even the most basic models of those vendors should offer those connectors.

But that is not a problem in general. All modern GPUs are shipped with with the necessary power adapters (2x MOLEX to 1x 6/8pin PCIe, two of those) to connect to the PSU.

The worst thing that may happen is that you connect it to a 12V line that is too saturated in which case you can just try another one ~ that's another reason why you get 2 of those MOLEX to PCIe adapters allowing you to easily connect one to another 12V line offering the necessary power.

ha14

October 9, 2014 at 9:34 am

Intel DH61WW has PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot so ZOTAC NVIDIA GTX 970 will work on that speed